Subject: Feminism

Carte-de-visite (CDV) photograph of Ernestine Louise Rose (1810-1892), a prominent American suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker. The photograph, likely dating from 1868-1869, was taken by F. C. Birtles in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It may be a reproduction of an earlier image, not a photograph taken from life.

This book, published in 1876, presents biographical sketches of eleven prominent women associated with the freethought movement. The biographies include Madame Roland, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Mary Shelley, George Sand, Harriet Martineau, Frances Wright D'Arusmont, Emma Martin, Margaret Reynolds Chappellsmith, Ernestine L. Rose, Frances Power Cobbe, and George Eliot (Marian Evans Lewes). This work, originally published by Somerby before its acquisition by The Truth Seeker Company, contains a significant biographical account of Ernestine Rose (pp. 255-281). It is considered extremely rare due to a lack of subsequent reprints.

This book contains a phonographically reported transcription of the 1853 Hartford Bible Convention. Notable speakers included Andrew Jackson Davis, William Lloyd Garrison, and Ernestine L. Rose. Rose's speech, in particular, is a significant contribution to American feminist thought, advocating for the rights of all people regardless of sex, race, or origin. The convention's proceedings offer valuable insight into 19th-century American religious, philosophical, and political discourse.

This trade card advertises Joshua Hoyle's Shoe Store in Olneyville, Rhode Island. The front of the card features a portrait of Bertha Pappenheim, an Austrian-Jewish feminist and social pioneer, alongside an advertisement for the store. [Bertha Pappenheim (February 27, 1859 – May 28, 1936) was an Austrian-Jewish feminist, a social pioneer, and the founder of the Jewish Women's Association (Jüdischer Frauenbund). Under the pseudonym Anna O., she was also one of Josef Breuer's best documented patients because of Freud's writing on Breuer's case.] It is unusual for a trade card to feature a prominent figure like Bertha Pappenheim. This suggests that the card may be a stock card, meaning it was available to be customized for different businesses.

Trade card advertising Chas. C. Haysom, Watchmaker & Jeweler, featuring an image of Bertha Pappenheim. Published circa 1885 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.